Hellraiser

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“A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their sadistic underworld.”

When people hear the word “Hellraiser,” most people immediately picture Pinhead. But while the saga may have been carried by the bondage bearing cenobite, the first movie focused on the expression of Clive Barker’s kinks. What? That’s not what you got from it?

In the very opening of the movie, Frank Cotton had reached a point in his life that all manner of earthly pleasures, every human experience, now bored him. He was at the point where he was like “Dimensional beings? Eh, why not?”

Julia really feels like more of the villain than the Cenobites. She had to push herself to see how far she would go to get back that intense pleasure she’d had before. The scene of her in front of the mirror after the first death is brilliant, showing use this sort of moment where she’s connecting that thrill found in the horror to an actual pleasure.

SPOILERS FROM HERE!

In the ending, when the Cenobites finally trap Frank to take him back, his last line – spoken after licking his lips – is “Jesus wept,” This isn’t actually a religious outcry. Nay-nay! In some English speaking parts of the work, it’s what someone might say when a plan goes wrong.

Also, this line was ad-libbed! Clive was originally update but then decided to keep it because it fit the situation. Frank’s prison escape failed and he was accepting it.

“Pain and pleasure. Indivisible.”

With liberty and justice for all?